Kodos

The vaccines don't guarantee you won't get it, but they do drastically reduce your odds of getting Covid-19. And if you do get it, it's less severe.

Let's put it in football terms. Team Virus came on the scene with a new scheme, and they took it to Team Humanity pretty hard. 626,000+ have died in the U.S. to date. 4.17 million have died worldwide. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ Team Virus came in with a new scheme that our team wasn't ready for. They built a nice lead on us. We started to play defense with masking and socially distancing, but that only slowed Team Virus down. They scored early and often. Team Virus has a creative and unpredictable coach. He keeps coming up with new variants of his most effective plays, and they keep driving down the field and scoring more points on our defense. We just can't get off the field on third down. Team Virus keeps converting on opportunities. It took a while, but our guys on the sidelines figured out some things about how Team Virus plays. We've scored some touchdowns with the vaccines in the United States. But if we're going to come from behind to beat Team Virus, we need to play as a team. Everyone needs to know their assignments on defense and execute them, or Team Virus will keep marching down the field. Now, our d-line and most of our front seven have been studying their playbooks and practicing their technique. They are vaccinated, and even mask up if they are in a crowded space indoors with some unvaccinated people present. Team Virus is having trouble running on us now. But our secondary hasn't gotten vaccinated. Our corners and safeties sort of know the playbook, but they decided to play Madden rather than commit everything to memory and practice the plays. They're vulnerable because they haven't been vaccinated. They think, "Hey, I'm athletic. I'll be fine. I kindof know what coach wants us to do on this play..." Right before they bust a coverage and a new variant hits deep. We are never going to stop the virus until people work as a team to deny the virus more chances to mutate and propagate. There are people out there who can't get vaccinated because of problems with their immune system. People who are healthy need to take one for the team and get vaccinated to help get Team Humanity to herd immunity. It's the only way we can win. Otherwise, the virus will continue to spread and mutate and kill. We need more team players.

Looks like this is already being covered on the basketball board. The perils of always coming to the football board first! http://www.hoosiersportsnation.com/index.php?/topic/9438-nil/

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/01/sports/ncaafootball/ncaa-college-athletes-endorsements.html

Oops, wrong thread.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bo-schembechler-son-matt-schembechler-dr-robert-anserson-abuse/ Another shameful day for the Big Ten, as yet another school knowingly allowed a sexual predator to run free.

As I understand it, Denver is the most likely landing spot for Rodgers. He wants to go west, and out of the NFC, according to what I saw on another board.

That was horrifying. At least most had masks, but a bad idea to bunch up like that.

I live in CT. People wear masks when out in public. It’s not herd immunity. It’s people doing what doctors tell them to do. Wearing masks works. If people didn’t treat it as an infringement on their rights and just wore the masks, we’d be in a lot better place right now.

I have a couple of NCAA '14 leagues that I run.